One beautiful girl, two extravagant and prominent men. Throw in jealousy and a family history of mental instability and you have the recipe for a shocking murder, at an outdoor theater in the heart of New York City in front of nearly a thousand witnesses. The trial that followed was quickly dubbed "the trial of the century." The 1907 trial, and a second the next year after the first jury hung, helped closed the curtains on America's "Gilded Age."
Sources
The Love Triangle | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Thaw, Stanford White, And The Trial Of The Century (allthatsinteresting.com)
Historian writes true-crime account of Evelyn Nesbit scandal (brooklyneagle.com)
Story of Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw-White Murder
The 100-Foot Gibson Girl: A Symbol of Abuse, Then and Now - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The Trials of Harry Thaw for the Murder of Stanford White (famous-trials.com)
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